JOURNALISM: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'jur`nlizum
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| Matching Terms: | | journalist, journalistic, journalistically, journalist's privilege
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
- [n] newspapers and magazines collectively
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| | Synonyms: | | fourth estate, news media |
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| | See Also: | | copy, Fleet Street, newspapering, photojournalism, print media, profession, tabloid, yellow journalism | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Jour"nal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. journalisme.]
1. The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]
2. The periodical collection and publication of current news;
the business of managing, editing, or writing for,
journals or newspapers; as, political journalism.
Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm.
--Ed. Rev.
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| | Related Terms: | | advice, AP, artistry, Associated Press, authorcraft, authorship, automatic writing, book publishing, broadcast journalism, cacoethes scribendi, communications, communications industry, composition, creative writing, drama-writing, editorial-writing, essay-writing, expository writing, facility in writing, feature-writing, Fleet Street, fourth estate, graphomania, graphorrhea, graphospasm, inditement, information, intelligence, libretto-writing, literary artistry, literary composition, literary power, literary production, literary talent, magazine publishing, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newspaper, newsworthiness, novel-writing, pen, pencraft, playwriting, press association, print medium, public press, public print, publishing, publishing industry, radio, ready pen, reportage, Reuters, rewriting, short-story writing, skill with words, technical writing, telegraph agency, television, the fourth estate, the press, tidings, United Press International, UPI, verse-writing, wire service, word, writing |
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